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CICS WEB APIs supported by TXSeries compatible with CICS TS API same IDEA opened for CICS TX

the API of CICS TS and CICS WEB, they are not exactly the same. Following CICS WEB APIs are supported by TXSeries to work CICS application as HTTP clients: WEB PARSE command WEB OPEN command WEB CONVERSE command WEB CLOSE command ...
almost 2 years ago in TXSeries for Multiplatforms / Runtime 0 Future consideration

CICS WEB APIs supported by TXSeries compatible with CICS TS API

the API of CICS TS and CICS WEB, they are not exactly the same. Following CICS WEB APIs are supported by TXSeries to work CICS application as HTTP clients: WEB PARSE command WEB OPEN command WEB CONVERSE command WEB CLOSE command If you look into ...
almost 2 years ago in CICS TX 0 Future consideration

Possibility to have multiple WLM resource names in the application info panel

The number of wlm resource names in the PDB's application info panel shouldn't be limited to only 3 names per Application. Users should be able to add as many wlm_resources as they might need.
over 7 years ago in IBM Z System Automation 0 Future consideration

Better handling of message inserts agains stopped TPIPEs and transactions

When applications perform asynchronous callouts over a TPIPE and the distributed service, which should receive the messages isn't available it comes to a queuing in IMS. Depending on the amount of asynchronous callouts the message queue can get fi...
almost 2 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / General TM 1 Future consideration

Resume TPIPE auto and explicite acknowledgement support in CCI implementations of the IMS TM Resource Adapter

The IMS TM Resource Adapter supports two implementations: A message-driven bean (MDB) and a Common Client Interface (CCI) implementation. When using the CCI implementation currently the resume TPIPE auto option can't be used for callout message pr...
almost 4 years ago in IMS Transaction Manager / Open Access TM 1 Future consideration

zUnit: PLI-Support for the return-code (PLIRETC)

The test case editor of zUnit does not recognizes the return code for a PLI program (PLIRETC) and therefore no expected value can be specified.
almost 4 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / Client Install 1 Future consideration

Fast Name Search or Filter for Data Items in Test Case Editor of zUnit

In the Test Case Editor of zUnit, please provide fast name search or filter functionality for data items.When performing PoC with V14.1.4, the filter function was too slow to be used at all.In financial and insurance systems, most programs handle ...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Future consideration

Copy and compare test entries in Test Case Editor of zUnit

In the Test Case Editor of zUnit, please provide the function to copy and compare whole values of one test entry with a single click.When performing PoC with V14.1.4, we copied by selecting the cell range.However, when the number of data items is ...
almost 6 years ago in IBM Developer for z/OS / z/OS Application Development 1 Future consideration

CICS System Policy for Extra Partition TDQ WRITE output, to detect large output TDQ; there is one at Task Level

We have several output TDQ's that get filled with Millions of TDQ Writes; fills up JES Spool; get paged to Close/Open TDQ to SPOOL off. We have PLT process to do this at Midnight; but now they are filling at arbitrary times; we get paged with aler...
almost 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Explorer 1 Future consideration

IPCS to format the active HANDLE's for a task

Right now IPCS only shows the HTB control blocks. It would be nice if IPCS could format the control blocks into a table showing which handles are active
almost 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Other 1 Future consideration